Radeon x550/x700 Dri with radeon driver?
I have been having a real problem trying to find out whether the radeon driver supports DRI for this chipset (X550/X700).
I bought Sapphire Card that said that it was based on a radeon x700 (which should be supported by radeon DRI). Linux lists two unknown ATI display devices, FreeBSD lists:
'Radeon x550/x700 Series'
chip=0x56571002
and
'Radeon X550/X700 series Secondary'
chip=0x56771002
It shows up similarly on windows once I install the Sapphire provided drivers.
I have a single widescreen monitor attached to the VGA (it also has DVI) and can get the native 1680x1050 display resolution after running X -configure and using the generated .conf (which only has one device and lists the board as 'unknown'). However, I can never get DRI to work with this thing on FreeBSD or linux.
I get a DRMGetVersion failed error in the Xorg log. I even tried installing the fglrx driver in ubuntu and that was an absolute disaster. With fglrx, the system reboots everytime I try to log in.
So now I'm confused about what chipset I even have (what's with the 'X550 slash X700') and have no clue whether there is any configuration that'll get DRI to work.
ANY help, wven pointing me to a better place to ask would be VERY welcome. Of course, if anyone is familiar with a chip like this that'd be great.
I thought x700 and x550 cards were completely different GPU generations, one being R400-based (rv410) and the other R300-based (rv370/rv380) Am I (and Wikipedia) wrong? How can they be interchangeable enough to have the same PCI ID?
ETA: Never mind, I did some research via Google and an .inf from a Windows Catalyst that I had lying around, and it looks like there was an "X550XTX" card that was actually a rebranded X700, and thus (unlike the regular X550) a genuine R400-based GPU...
Last edited by Alex W. Jackson; 06-21-2008 at 04:18 AM.
I don't get it either.
On the box it says it's a Sapphire ATI Radeon x700.
After installing the bunndled drivers, this is what catalyst hardware information reports:
I installed windows just to see how the included drivers would report it. I still don't know for sure what X should be seeing it as though. My main problem is no DRI so I can't take advantage of the 3D capabilities in linux.
Graphics Chipset Radeon X550/X700 series
Device ID 5657
Vendor 1002
Subsystem ID 0001
Subsystem Vendor ID 174b
Bus Type PCI Express
Memory Size 256 MB
Memory Type DDR1
Core Clock 398 MHZ
Memory Clock 199 MHZ
Your card is supported. The error suggest that you don't have drm install maybe it's fglrx getting in the way. On ubuntu do apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx and try to reinstall libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx. This might help. Otherwise provide your Xorg.
marq, are you "Methuselah" from ubuntuforums?
If that is him, his lspci, xorg.conf and Xorg.log are here (and if that isn't him, it's someone having problems with a card that's identical down to the PCI subvendor ID):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5154051
I notice that the radeon driver thinks his card is an RV370, but that's wrong, PCI ID 0x5657 is definitely an RV410 no matter what the box the card came in calls it.
Oh, and I'm not cyberstalkin' ya marq, I just stumbled on that post while I was Googling the X550/X700 mystery...
Last edited by Alex W. Jackson; 06-21-2008 at 04:40 AM.
Yeah, good detective work!
I posted the same thing on the ubuntu forums.
That is my xorg.conf and XOrg log on there.
So glisse, if it's OK you can refer to that as well.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5154051
I also tried what you suggested. fglrx wasn't interfering and the mesa libs were already up-to-date.
lsmod | grep radeon shows:
radeon 131360 0
drm 106152 1 radeon
and I think that's fine as well.
It would seem that the 3D driver is not properly attaching to my card.
Alex, I noticed the detection of the rV370 too while I was looking through the log for what X thought the card was. But I was getting so much conflicting info, I wasn't even sure that was wrong. Thanks for the confirmation.
BTW, lspci -v reports on the ATI card as two devices both 'unknown'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5657 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at e5000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e4000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5677
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Unknown device 0000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e5010000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Last edited by marq; 06-21-2008 at 05:27 AM.
Another thing that I find suspicious:
$ dmesg | grep drm
[ 48.516297] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
No mention of attaching to any radeon.
What does your full 'lsmod' look like?
Adam
I suspect you have an old DRM that's missing your card's pciid--0x5657 was only added this January:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14289
adamk, here's my full lsmod:
Code:Module Size Used by ipv6 311848 14 af_packet 27272 2 radeon 131360 0 drm 105896 1 radeon rfcomm 47392 2 l2cap 28800 13 rfcomm bluetooth 67748 4 rfcomm,l2cap ppdev 11400 0 cpufreq_powersave 3200 0 cpufreq_conservative 10632 0 cpufreq_userspace 6180 0 cpufreq_stats 8416 0 cpufreq_ondemand 11152 0 freq_table 6464 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand dock 12960 0 video 23444 0 output 5632 1 video container 6656 0 sbs 17808 0 sbshc 8960 1 sbs battery 16776 0 iptable_filter 4608 0 ip_tables 24104 1 iptable_filter x_tables 23560 1 ip_tables ac 8328 0 lp 14916 0 bt878 13672 0 tuner 49056 0 tea5767 7812 1 tuner sr_mod 20132 0 tda8290 13828 1 tuner tuner_simple 10632 1 tuner cdrom 41512 1 sr_mod mt20xx 14600 1 tuner tea5761 6916 1 tuner snd_hda_intel 440408 3 snd_pcm_oss 47648 0 snd_mixer_oss 20224 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 92168 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_page_alloc 13200 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm bttv 214772 1 bt878 snd_hwdep 12552 1 snd_hda_intel usb_storage 82496 0 ir_common 39812 1 bttv libusual 23520 1 usb_storage snd_seq_dummy 5764 0 usblp 17664 0 compat_ioctl32 11136 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 8452 1 bttv videobuf_dma_sg 17028 1 bttv videobuf_core 22020 2 bttv,videobuf_dma_sg snd_seq_oss 38912 0 snd_seq_midi 10688 0 btcx_risc 6792 1 bttv tveeprom 20624 1 bttv i2c_core 28544 9 tuner,tea5767,tda8290,tuner_simple,mt20xx,tea5761,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom usbhid 35296 0 snd_rawmidi 29856 1 snd_seq_midi hid 44992 1 usbhid videodev 30720 1 bttv parport_pc 41128 1 v4l2_common 21888 4 tuner,bttv,compat_ioctl32,videodev v4l1_compat 15492 2 bttv,videodev 8139too 31104 0 snd_seq_midi_event 10112 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi iTCO_wdt 15312 0 parport 44300 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc pata_jmicron 8448 0 snd_seq 63232 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 27912 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 10644 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 70856 17 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device iTCO_vendor_support 5764 1 iTCO_wdt ata_piix 24196 0 button 10912 0 pata_acpi 9856 0 intel_agp 30624 0 pcspkr 4992 0 shpchp 38172 0 pci_hotplug 34608 1 shpchp evdev 14976 4 soundcore 10400 1 snd ext3 149264 1 jbd 57000 1 ext3 mbcache 11392 1 ext3 sg 41880 0 sd_mod 33280 3 floppy 69096 0 r8169 36612 0 ata_generic 9988 0 8139cp 27776 0 mii 7552 2 8139too,8139cp uhci_hcd 29856 0 ehci_hcd 41996 0 ahci 33028 2 libata 176432 5 pata_jmicron,ata_piix,pata_acpi,ata_generic,ahci scsi_mod 178488 5 sr_mod,usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata usbcore 169904 7 usb_storage,libusual,usblp,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd thermal 19744 0 processor 41448 1 thermal fan 6792 0 fbcon 46336 0 tileblit 4096 1 fbcon font 10112 1 fbcon bitblit 7424 1 fbcon softcursor 3712 1 bitblit fuse 56112 3
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